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March 2020

March 26, 2020

Works of Mercy During a Time of Social Distancing

I tried to say something useful for the Catholic Herald: The corporal works of mercy...

June 2019

June 04, 2019

What (and Who) Is Punishment For? I’m at The American Conservative

with an essay riffing on the provocative, if incomplete, work of a Trump-appointed federal judge:...

May 2018

May 31, 2018

“You Have Heard It Said: Visit the Imprisoned. But What About Their Guards?”

I'm in America magazine: ...At the crucifixion, the two people who confessed Jesus as Lord...

March 2017

March 31, 2017

Moving Pictures from an Institution: Movie notes

Four films linked by a really depressing theme! Scum: Our institution: a 1970s Borstal (juvenile...

September 2016

September 26, 2016

All Theology Is Prison Theology: A Couple of Links

A little while ago I used a Michigan case about videoconference sentencing to explore the...

August 2016

August 05, 2016

“Inside the Deadly World of Private Prisoner Transport”: The Marshall Project

this piece starts grim and only continues in that vein: In July 2012, Steven Galack,...

July 2016

July 15, 2016

“Humiliation and Reconciliation”: I’m at AmCon

as usual I seem to have kept the most important stuff for the last three...

July 06, 2016

Who Is Doing Good Ministry to Corrections Officers?

Last Saturday was the feast of Sts Processus and Martinian, patrons of wardens, guards, and...

July 01, 2016

Movie Must-Watch Notes: Abuse of Power Comes as a TOTAL Surprise!

OK, first of all I have to tell you that I saw Tickled and I...

June 2016

June 23, 2016

“Moral Reconation Theory”: The Bizarre, Creepy Made-Up Religion Used to Re-Educate American Prisoners

like, the Scientology and Goldman Sachs stuff is not even the weirdest or most disturbing...

June 09, 2016

Four Links from a Criminal Justice System: Aftermath Edition (With Funk/Soul)

There is funk/soul at the end of this post. Delayed gratification, I've heard of it...

May 2016

May 23, 2016

“The Convict-Bourgeois”: My Hans Fallada Rediscovery Piece, Which I Want You All to Read

The two biggest things I left out here (mostly due to space constraints): Fallada always...

May 21, 2016

Five Links from a Criminal Justice System: Corrections and Overcorrections

"The Myth that Fewer People Are Going to Prison": John Pfaff, a legal scholar at...

April 2016

April 30, 2016

Prison Visits Under Threat, “Hamilton” Behind Bars, Art & the NYPD: Three Links from a Criminal Justice System

"Prison visits helped prepare me for life after release. Why are they under threat?": Leaving...

April 05, 2016

Virginia’s Drunk on Power, Detroit Is Getting Some Sunshine, And Three More Links from a Criminal Justice System

In the continuing saga of am I the only person who remembers the '90s, seriously...

April 01, 2016

A Principal, A Senator, And Two Stories of Second Chances

I'm esp struck by the role of Christian faith in both of these pieces. Nancy...

March 2016

March 08, 2016

Five (Or Seven) Links from a Criminal Justice System: Art, Emus, Criminalization of Poverty. But Hey, Emus!

"Rarely Seen Images of the Real San Quentin": The pictures, for the most part, are...

January 2016

January 20, 2016

Don’t Medicalize My Eschaton: Five Links from a Criminal Justice System

Let's start with an op-ed in the Gotham Gazette showing how easy it is to...

December 2015

December 31, 2015

Five Links from a Criminal Justice System: Modern Dance, The Rise and Fall of Restorative Justice in a NY Town, And the Top Stories of 2016

I'm super breaking my supposed rule that I won't link to the Marshall Project here...

December 23, 2015

“Discipline and Rupture at Christmas”: I read Foucault

for AmCon: There are authors whose work so permeates our intellectual atmosphere that by the...

December 08, 2015

“Can Prison Help Convicts?”: A Panel Answers a Lot of Questions (But Not the One It Asked)

So a couple weeks ago I watched this video and it's an interesting intro to...

December 06, 2015

In the Year of the Dragon: Ross Douthat Writes About Guns

so I don't have to. He makes his point in his characteristically careful, suggestive style,...

December 02, 2015

Five Links from a Criminal Justice System: Better DAs, Union vs. Heroism, Divisive Forgiveness, The Treatment-Industrial Complex, And What About the Crime Problem?

"How to Run Against a Tough-on-Crime District Attorney--And Win": District attorneys and the prosecutors who...

November 2015

November 12, 2015

Prison Photos and Pepper Spray in Schools: Five Links from a Criminal Justice System

"Photos of 1960s US Prison System Attempt to Show that Inmates Are Us": Lyon's images...

November 02, 2015

Five Links from a Criminal Justice System: Meeting Your Kidnappers, Keeping Mothers Out of Prison, Putting Cops in Schools, And Gullah Amends

Most of these links have a theme of "aftermath," I guess. "What Happened After My...

October 2015

October 19, 2015

Five Links from a Criminal Justice System

These are fairly random, a grab-bag of the things that caught my attention from the...

October 10, 2015

Five Links from a Criminal Justice System

I'm gonna do this so it gets progressively cheerier as it goes on. The last...

October 08, 2015

Five Links from a Criminal Justice System: Mississippi’s Hope, Gun Control and the Prison Industrial Complex, And More

"How Mississippi Slashed Its Prison Population and Embraced Criminal Justice Reform": If Mississippi were a...

October 08, 2015

“St Maria Goretti in Sing Sing”: A Real Thing That Happened

w/very moving photo: The #PilgrimageofMercy, the tour of the major relics of St. Maria Goretti...

October 02, 2015

Five Links from a Criminal Justice System

I have a ton of these lying around so you'll be getting them in small...